How do you correctly read food labels? If its low fat what percentage should it be? I find that so many foods that are low fat make up the numbers in carbohydrates...? So what carbohydrate factor should I be looking at?

that depends if you are on a low carb diet or not iwillbefit. I go more for the just the energy value of the product and the sugar content in the carbs....if it is more than 15g per 100g in the sugar department I leave it alone. I guess it depends on what type of eating plan you are on and now I have probably just confused you all the more!!

I like foods that are less than 5% carbs and less than say 10% fat. It is true though that the low fat foods are also high carb - very annoying that! But yeah it depends what kind of plan you are on as to what percentages you would look out for

Oh and with the carbs I also check how much of that is sugar. Sugar sucks - the complex carbs are better!

For me I look at FAT... CAL.... KJ I have a calorie & fat counter book that you can get from the chemist by Allen Borushek's & it is the best book to buy!! You can look at anything & everything. I take it with me anywhere as it fits into me hand bag so it is always with me to help me make the right choices of food & helps me to lose weight

TIP: To work out calories if they are not on a nutritional
information package:

1 Calorie = 4.18 Kilojoules

I dont know if it true or not but if you cut out carbs completly you do lose alot of weight but I heard that you can put the weight straight back on if not more weight as soon as you start to eat them again

Hi Chelle, welcome Yes, from my experience, I'd say that's fairly true. But the weight losses and gains with the carbs are entirely fluid. For example, this week I ate a big carb meal on Tuesday and my weight shot up by 2kg It has taken until this morning (Saturday) to come back down... and it's now less than it started with. All fluid An annoying side-effect of the low-carb diet!!